19 Facts About Harlan Cleveland

Harlan Cleveland was an American diplomat, educator, and author.

Harlan Cleveland served as Lyndon B Johnson's US Ambassador to NATO from 1965 to 1969, and earlier as US Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 1961 to 1965.

Harlan Cleveland was president of the University of Hawaii from 1969 to 1974, president of the World Academy of Art and Science in the 1990s, and Founding dean of the University of Minnesota's Hubert H Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.

Harlan Cleveland was born on January 19,1918 in New York City, to Stanley Matthews Cleveland and Marian Van Buren.

Harlan Cleveland's siblings were Harold van Buren Cleveland, Anne Cleveland White, and Stanley Cleveland.

Harlan Cleveland's father died when he was eight years old, after which the family moved to Geneva, Switzerland, where he attended school and learned French.

Harlan Cleveland was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in 1938 and 1939.

When World War II broke out, Harlan Cleveland returned to the States.

Harlan Cleveland's career included periods of service as an American diplomat and as an educator, as well as significant productivity as a writer and book author.

Harlan Cleveland served as dean of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University from 1956 to 1961.

Harlan Cleveland was appointed the US Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs under Presidents John F Kennedy and Lyndon B Johnson from 1961 to 1965, and then as President Johnson's US Ambassador to NATO from 1965 to 1969.

Harlan Cleveland went on to serve as president of the University of Hawaii from 1969 to 1974, a period that saw university's addition of an international astronomy project, a law school, and a medical school.

Harlan Cleveland was an early advocate and practitioner of online education, teaching courses for the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, and Connected Education in the 1980s and early 1990s.

Harlan Cleveland then served as chair of the commission's successor organization, the "International Center for Peace and Development" in California, for the remainder of his active years.

Harlan Cleveland authored twelve books, among his best-known are The Knowledge Executive and Nobody in Charge: Essays on the Future of Leadership.

Harlan Cleveland was the co-winner of the 1981 Prix de Talloires, an international award for "accomplished generalists".

Harlan Cleveland was the recipient of the US Presidential Medal of Freedom, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson Award, the Peace Corps' Leader for Peace Award, and the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's James Madison Award for Distinguished Public Service.

Harlan Cleveland was named as trustee of the Chaordic Commons, and was the recipient of 22 honorary degrees.

Harlan Cleveland died at the age of 90 on May 30,2008, in Sterling, Virginia outside of Washington, DC.